A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations — Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce Tuesday that it will split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them — in a drastic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel.

New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret — Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together.

April Fools Check: Did Google Really Release Mail Goggles? — I looked at the blog post and then I looked at the date. No, it's not April Fools and yes Google did just release a new product, created by Jon Perlow, called Mail Goggles. The new feature, which is a play on the term Beer Goggles …

Major Functions — The single, compact unit allows for simple enjoyment of videos and music anyplace and anytime, while leaving the hands free to do other things. — Enjoy image and video viewing with a sensation equivalent to that of viewing of a 50-inch large screen from a distance of three meters.

Lightbulbs Could Replace Wi-Fi Hotpsots — ­Boston University's College of Engineering is launching a program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves.

Has open source won—or has it lost? — Assessing the open-source scorecard is complicated. A complete “state of open source” would fill many pages. But here are a few things that have struck me over the past year or two. — Large swaths of open source have become mainstream—to the point of invisibility.

New EU directive pushes toward replaceable iPhone batteries — The European Union is preparing new directives that could have an impact on Apple's future products, including “the New Batteries Directive,” which proposes to mandate that batteries in electronic appliances be “readily removed” for replacement or disposal.

Barry Diller's Breakup: Why IAC Didn't Work — Internet Company Was Too Complex, He Says; Smaller Firm Has Sharper Focus — Barry Diller's restless, 47-year business career is yet again taking a new turn. After a dizzying run from mailroom to studio mogul, he quit his high-flying Hollywood …

Verizon Gets Smacked Down For Its VoIP Patent Suing Spree — from the so-much-for-whacking-cable-competitors dept — Verizon was one of the last players to the VoIP party. Cable companies had been offering VoIP for years, and then Vonage, AT&T and a variety of other startups really built …

University of Texas launches e-textbook trial — College textbooks come packed with one advantage—knowledge—but are burdened with a slew of less-desirable traits. The thick books add pounds to overloaded packs, are easily outmoded with the release of a new edition, and can cost a fortune.

Have You Seen the Flickr Panda's Technicolor Yawn? — I'm trying to to come up with a decent way to introduce this - there really isn't a sane way to approach this because the latest feature from Flickr, while fairly mundane in function, is borderline insane.

BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac — Feelin' left in the dust while all your Outlook-loving PC friends get all the cool BlackBerry stuff? Well, RIM has been hard at work on the Mac side of things, and we've got a first look at BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac. This isn't a final version …

What To Look For Next — The Treasury, the Fed, and Warren Buffet have been the only buyers in this meltdown and have been largely focused on financial companies. Meanwhile the rest of the market has gone down 30% year to date and very few, if any, stocks have been spared. — What do we look for next?

Canon's 1Ds Mark IV rumor and two new lenses? — With current Mark III barely 18 months in production, it's too early to predict for a replacement? You've seen the new 50D Canon launched 6 months earlier, broke its usual 18 months product cycle for the prosumer model, why not the 1 series?

Scientist: Holographic television to become reality — LONDON, England (CNN) — Picture this: you're sat down for the Football World Cup final, or a long-awaited sequel to the “Sex and the City” movie and you're watching all the action unfold in 3-D on your coffee table.

Betting Billions — Talk about bad timing. — Since 2006, Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) has poured more than a billion dollars into helping develop what it hopes will be the next great communications standard, WiMax. On Tuesday, it is slated to official launch WiMax in Baltimore, its first U.S. market.